—In Little Rock property has been destroyed by fire to the amount of $350,000.
—Brazil furnishes the United States with thirty-six million pounds of tobacco per annum.
—Paris has devoured during the last half year 700,000 kilogrammes of horseflesh and 48,000 kilogrammes of mule or donkey meat.
—During the last week the police of New York arrested 1,817 persons. For the same period the Bureau of Records of Vital Statistics registered 435 births, 127 marriages and 427 deaths.
—But four buildings now remain in Boston that were standing a hundred years ago. These in the order of their age are Christ Church, the Old South, the old State-house, and the Stone Chapel.
—An ice flood at St. Louis, Dec. 13, destroyed shipping estimated at $200,000. The ice piled in places ten to fifteen feet high. It is said to have been the most disastrous flood of the last ten years.
—A dispatch from New York states that the most terrible outbreak of small-pox ever known in the northern country is raging on the east and west sides of Lake Winnebago. The average of deaths is 180 daily.
—The statue symbolic of Religious Liberty was unveiled on Thanksgiving day at the Centennial grounds. It is the gift of the Israelitish Order of B'nai B'rith in the United States in evidence of the appreciation in which they hold their American privileges.
—The buildings connected with the Centennial exhibition have been sold at auction. The Main Building, which cost $1,600,000, brought only $250,000, and will stand permanently where it is; Agricultural Hall cost $270,000 and sold for $13,100; the art annex cost $110,000 and was knocked down at $3,050—and other buildings in proportion.
—The Shah of Persia is studying the French and English languages, so as to be able to converse without interpreters at the Paris Exhibition in 1878, whether he will travel incognito as “Beglerbeg-i-Iran,” or the Lord of Lords of Persia. He is building a railroad six miles long from his capital, Teheran, to Shah Abdul Azim, a place of pilgrimage.
—Mexico is in trouble as usual. There are now three presidents—or, one and two usurpers. Lerdo, the regularly elected president, was driven from the capital and finally fell into the hands of Díaz who is a chronic usurper. Iglesias also claims to be president. Poor Mexico has had but one competent president during the present generation, and that was Juarez.—Ex.
—The Mexican Revolutionists have captured a Mr. Miller, an American banker at Chihuahua, and demanded $8,000 in gold as a ransom for his release. Colonel Andrews, with a force of infantry, cavalry and artillery, has gone to his rescue. The Revolutionists are reported 400 strong, and have threatened to shoot Miller if they cannot hold him.
—A very foolish competition is that now going on among the arsenals of Europe for the production of the greatest gun. The 100-ton Armstrong has proved itself to be strong enough to smash any ship's armor that can be made to float. That ends the question between armor and guns. But the British navy now wants a 200-ton gun that can sink a vessel at a distance as great as any gun afloat can throw a shell. The plans are for a gun fifty feet long, to throw a missile of 3,500 pounds' weight.—Interior.
—The British Government has formally announced to our own that the position which it had previously taken respecting extradition, that no criminal should be given up except on a pledge that he was not to be tried for any other offense than that for which he was extradited, was “premature,” which is a diplomatic way of saying that it was bad law and is to be abandoned. Accordingly Mr. Brent, the American forger, is to be returned, and Winslow would have been returned with him but that he suspected that his asylum was not perfectly secure and so fled the country.
Treasures of Adversity
It takes a touch of adversity, to show whether a man is a man at all, just as it needs the touch of frost to bring out the glories of the trees. Even on a dark day in October how royally the woods flame out! Under what glorious banners they march to meet the winter! What unmatched splendor, rich as sunset skies, tender as the rainbow, shine out over the whole earth! Those splendors are the treasures that the trees were silently laying up when the summer’s sun flooded them all day long. And shall a man, in his time of prosperity, lay up no store of sunshine in his inner self, whereby, when darker days come on, he shall be luminous with courage and good cheer?
A Properly Constituted Head
A HEAD that is properly constituted can accommodate itself to whatever pillows the vicissitudes of fortune may place under it.
Eating while Fatigued.
There are few habits more injurious to health than the common one of filling the stomach with food while the body is fatigued. Men will come from the fields, from their shops and counters, with their bodies or brains, or both, almost exhausted, sit down, and hurriedly eat a hearty meal, and then back to their labor again. If the brain, or any part or organ of the body becomes unduly fatigued, the whole system requires rest for awhile, so that the nervous influence and the circulation of the blood may become equalized throughout the body before another demand is made upon the vital energies.
If the stomach is filled with food while the vital forces are powerfully directed to the brain or the muscles, digestion cannot take place until an equilibrium has been established, and the blood and nervous power determined to the stomach, consequently the food remains undigested, becomes sour, and irritates the stomach, causing derangement and disease of the digestive organs and, through them, of the whole system. If you have any care for your health and comfort never sit down to eat while either body or brain is fatigued from over-exertion.—Herald of Health.
Opium as a Medicine.
Of all the stimulants to which man flies for consolation and inebriation, opium is the most insidious, the most dangerous, and the most terrible in its consequences. The drug comes to us in so many disguises and on such apparently proper occasions that the most temperately-inclined person may find himself its victim before he dreams of being in danger. The use of opium is a solitary habit and is not often learned from association or example. It is seldom or never first used in its crude state, but is taken simply as a medicine or sedative—and perhaps by medical advice—under the guise of laudanum, paregoric and the numerous preparations of morphine. Sometimes the physicians give it in pills, powders and tinctures, and sometimes inject it into the blood by minute syringes.
The patient enjoying the soothing and quieting influence of the charming poison, is lured to its continued use on his recovery, and by degrees becomes so accustomed to it that it gets to be an actual necessity, and he can neither sleep or eat or think without his accustomed potion. But what makes the matter worse is that to-day's dose will not produce the desired effects to-morrow. Hence the dose is increased, until in a short time the victim consumes a daily quantity that would kill half a dozen men not accustomed to it. Five grains of morphine will kill any ordinary man, and yet we have known an habitual user to swallow 20 and 30 grains a day, without apparent injury. But injury, dire and terrible, has been incurred nevertheless.
After a few months' indulgence the victim finds himself thoroughly bound to his fatal habit. The horrible reaction has commenced. He must keep himself charged with the drug continually or he suffers the torments of the damned, and he must consent to suffer and starve the appetite at once or he is irretrievably lost. If it is hard to give it up to-day, it will be much harder to-morrow, and it should be “now or never” to the man who would be saved from an untimely and most awful death. A few days suffice to recover from a drinking spree. But it takes weeks and sometimes months to overcome the opium habit.
We knew a man who had used 25 grains a day. He was determined to leave off, and we asked him on the sixth or eighth day of his abstinence to describe his sufferings. “I cannot find words,” said he, “to tell my torments. Every bone in my body aches, my brain is tortured, and my whole nervous system wrung as with a vice. I can only say that if I had one hundred thousand dollars I would give it all for only one hour’s cessation of the agony I endure.” And this man was a Christian and the grace of God and his own good resolution enabled him to pull through nearly a month of constant torment, and he was cured.
In view of such facts as we have mentioned, if any of our readers are in the habit of using any of these death-dealing preparations of opium, we beg of them to cut from it immediately and forever. Delay will only make the penalty greater. Now—now—now is the only accepted time. Continuance will be certain death, and if you die in breaking your chains you will perish in a good cause. —Church and Republic.
This Week's Paper.
By James White
This week's SIGNS will reach its readers not far from New Years. We congratulate our patrons on their happiness on receiving so valuable a New Year's salutation. We are gratified with the reading matter, and general make up of this week's paper. We print several thousands of extra copies to send out to canvassers, and to supply new subscribers. From this time the SIGNS will be issued weekly.
Calling the Disciples, on the first page, from the pen of Mrs. White, is a delightful subject for those who love to dwell upon the scenes of the first advent, and the establishment of the Christian church. It is a happy thought that Jesus was the most perfect educator the world ever knew, so that illiterate fishermen, under his teaching and refining influence, became men of commanding influence, so as to move thousands to repentance by a single sermon. All may read this article with profit.
In another column we call attention to the subject of Redemption on the second page. Papers upon the subject of the Way of Life from Paradise Lost to Paradise Restored will be given in this form, and on this page of each number of the current volume. They will be written with care, and when they have passed through the SIGNS they will be printed in numerous tracts, and in several pamphlets, and finally compose a volume. Canvassers who club the SIGNS with the Way of Life engraving should make the fact known that these articles, which will appear in the several numbers of the SIGNS for 1877, will be a complete exposition of the great subject illustrated by the picture.
Our third page, Elihu on the Sabbath, is a re-print of a tract which fell into our hands as early as 1853, without date, bearing simply the signature of Elihu. Since that time not less than 125,000 copies have been published and circulated. And such has been its acceptance by the friends of the Sabbath of the Bible that the S. D. A. Publishing Associations are now issuing and circulating about 25,000 copies per year. It is worthy of a careful reading.
The true merits of the articles on the editorial pages, four and five, by several writers, will be understood by a careful perusal, which we think they deserve. The progress of the cause in the East, under the caption, The Churches, is always read by those who love the welfare of those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
And may God bless the touching and instructive story of Grandmother's Room to the good of every home circle where it may be read. And next comes in the valuable selections under Good Health, and choice paragraphs of Religious and Secular News, and on the last page are some cheering reports of the progress of the cause on this coast, to make up our excellent paper for this week. God bless the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. J. W.
It is finally decided to put the price of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for one year, postage paid, at $2.00 a year to all regular subscribers who pay for the paper themselves. When furnished by the Missionary Society, or by individuals to send to their friends, the price will be $1.50 a year.
There are many applications from poor brethren for the SIGNS free. Every church should see that their worthy poor have the paper at full price.
A portion of the debt upon the SIGNS has been created by sending volumes one and two, postage paid, to hundreds of persons who have paid nothing. We have evidence, however, that much good has been done by the free distribution of the SIGNS. We call for donations to meet this debt, and to send the SIGNS to the worthy poor outside of the church.
It is a question with many of our friends who admire the Health Almanac, and regard it an important health publication, whether it can be sold to their neighbors and friends. A brother in this city sold sixty-three at full price in two hours, Dec. 26, and a sister, almost a stranger in the city, sold nineteen copies in a few hours.
The Cyclone in India.
A few weeks since we mentioned as a news item the fact that a terrible cyclone had swept over the islands of Hattiah, Sundeep, and Daklim Shahabazpore and other smaller islands off the coast of India, and stated that 20,000 persons were swept away by it. This news, when first reported by cable, seemed almost incredible, but later tidings not only confirm it, but state that no less than 250,000 persons perished by it.
The following on the subject from a leading New York paper will be of general interest:
“An hour before midnight, without a note of warning, an immense wave, rolling up from the south, swept with resistless force over the luckless islands. In the briefest possible space afterwards it reached the mainland, and hurled itself over the level plains on its terrible rush of death. The wave was twenty feet in height, and as it swept on with irresistible velocity, nothing could withstand it. The buildings in that part of the world are constructed of light material, generally of bamboo, and they were carried away like so many straws. Not a house was left standing in the wake of the wave; not an animal was left living; not a vestige of the crops was left in the fields. It was one wide track of death and ruin. There is not a household on the islands or the adjacent mainland that does not mourn the loss of many of its members. In one short hour more lives were sacrificed than the number who actually fell on the field in all the battles of our four years of civil war.
“The largest of the islands over which the recent cyclone swept had an area of eight hundred square miles and a population of a quarter of a million. The other islands were much smaller, and had a combined population of one hundred thousand. In these Oriental countries the density of the population affords full sweep for pestilence, earthquake or flood.
“The authorities say that where the storm wave passed it is believed that not a third of the inhabitants survive, and that the islands have not one-fourth of their population left. It is no wonder, therefore, that intense suffering followed on the heels of this deadly hurricane. The wretched survivors were left without food or shelter. From every quarter, over a district hundreds of miles in extent, arose the stench from putrefying bodies that could not be buried by the starving people who were left alive. As rapidly as possible the Government relieved their wants and strove to repair the ravages of the storm, but the suffering in the meantime was intense. In addition to the danger of actual famine, the cholera made its appearance on the edge of the afflicted district, and it was feared that it would spread over the whole country, finding food wherever the cyclone had interfered with the processes of nature.
“The calamity in India is the most terrible on record. The destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii was insignificant in comparison with it. Perhaps the calamity that most nearly approached it in horror was the inundation at Dort, in Southern Holland, in 1421, when the sea broke over the dikes and drowned one hundred thousand people. That terrible flood is said to have swallowed up seventy villages, with all their inhabitants. To it the island of Dort owes its formation, the city having previously stood on the mainland. In almost all other cases of the wholesale destruction of life by water, the calamity has been caused by the action of earthquakes. Such was the fearful tidal wave that swept upon the city of Lisbon, in Portugal, on the 1st of November, 1755, when the sea suddenly retired from the harbor, leaving the bar dry, and in a minute returned in the shape of a great breaker fifty feet or more in height. Sixty thousand people perished in the space of six minutes. Part of the city was engulfed by the ocean to the depth of six hundred feet, where the ruins still remain. At this time, also, many small towns were destroyed by inundation on the coast of Africa.
“A few years later, in 1783, one hundred thousand persons perished in the earthquake in Calabria, and a sea-wave entered the harbor of Messina and destroyed the city. In India, the earthquake of 1819 submerged a tract of two thousand square miles at the mouth of the Indus, and elevated a neighboring region proportionately. The western coast of South America has frequently been visited by tidal waves, the most destructive of which occurred at Arica on the 13th of August, 1868.”
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The Health Almanac.
By W. C. White
Our Health Almanac for 1877 has been sent out almost two weeks, and receives universal praise. The first edition of 6000 copies is nearly exhausted, and orders continue to come in, making it necessary to print a second edition. Let the orders come in at once that we may know how many to print.
W. C. WHITE.
Fresno County, Cal.
By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
I ARRIVED at Bro. Church’s on sixth-day morning, the 8th. Had an appointment sent out for Fairview for that evening, where we had a good full meeting.
Sabbath morning I preached in Mendocino settlement where Bro. Wood has held his last course of meetings. Spoke on the fourth commandment, after which we had an excellent social meeting, a goodly number being present from Fairview. On presenting the covenant six arose as signers. Spoke there also on First-day morning when three more signed the covenant, making nine in that place.
Evenings of both days I spoke in Fairview; Sunday evening on baptism. Monday morning, the 11th, we met at the water side at 10 o’clock, when fourteen were baptized. This was a blessed baptismal season. The Lord met with us, indeed. There were of all ages, from ten to sixty-two years, among the baptized.
There was but little religious influence in this neighborhood when Bro. Wood first visited it. But now it is almost entirely converted. Several who were confirmed infidels are now rejoicing in God in the present truth.
The three following evenings I spoke in Fairview, giving an outline of the health reform and the doctrine of the promise of the Spirit, after which I returned to Mendocino settlement to meet some questions on which they needed help there.
Bro. Wood held meetings in Kingsburg, a small village on the Rail Road, 20 miles above Fresno, but could get no one to move out on the truth. Hoping that something might yet be done there we had an appointment there on First-day afternoon, but found no interest to hear.
Have sent an appointment to Visalia for next Sabbath, and am visiting a few localities with Bro. Wood to find a suitable opening for him to commence another series of meetings.
The present truth has done a good work in Fresno County; all our meetings (except the one at Kingsburg) have been most encouraging. We ask the prayers of all that the Lord will guide and direct in our future labors.
J. H. WAGGONER.
Fresno, Cal., Dec. 19.
Walnut Creek, Cal.
By B. A. Stephens
COMMENCED lecturing in La Fayette, Oct. 20, in company with Bro. Morrison. Forty-three lectures in all were given, Bro. Morrison giving four of them before he left. Fourteen signed the covenant, and several more are still undecided.
Bro. Morton joined me Nov. 30, and by invitation of the citizens of Walnut Creek, three and a half miles distant from La Fayette, we began a course of lectures there Dec. 5. Our average attendance has been fifty. The interest to hear is good, and I hope for some to obey the truth. Brethren, do not forget to pray for the work here.
B. A. STEPHENS.
Dec. 13, 1876.
Binghamton, Solano Co., Cal.
By W. M. Healey
AFTER giving twenty-five discourses in Elmira with some fruit, I followed up the work, as God seemed to open the way, by preaching in this place. The work here has required patience and earnest labor, but seems to be in much more favorable condition now than at any previous time. Those who have taken their stand are persons of influence and will help us much in our further labors.
Pray for the cause here.
W. M. Healey.
Dec. 12, 1876.
Cardinal Antonelli Prepared to Die
It is said that Cardinal Antonelli was prepared to die, as he had received pardon from the Pope for all his sins, and had selected a spot for his last resting place, upon which in 1870 he erected a monument at a cost of £4,000.
English Bibles.
By Editor
We have just received from the Toronto Bible House a full stock of English Bibles, which will be furnished by mail, post-paid, at the following prices:—
The Nonpariel plain, and the Pearl Circuit have maps of Palestine. For fineness of material and strength of binding and beauty of print, there is nothing equal to the English Bible.
State Quarterly Meeting
By John Norton Loughborough
Appointments.
State Quarterly Meeting.
The first Cal. State Quarterly meeting of this fiscal year, will be held with the Oakland church, in connection with the district quarterly meeting for district No. 7, Jan. 6 and 7, 1877.
We hope to see an attendance of all the directors in reach of this meeting, and as many of our brethren as can make it possible to attend. Bro. and Sr. White will be at this meeting. May we avail ourselves of their counsel and instruction, that we may know how to use our quota of strength in forwarding the great work for this time. J. N. L.